New documentary: How drug companies blocked HIV/AIDS drugs in Africa
theGRIO REPORT - Writer and Director Dylan Gray joined MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' to discuss his new documentary, 'Fire in the Blood', which looks at how and why western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to HIV/AIDS drugs in Africa...
Writer and Director Dylan Gray joined MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss his new documentary, Fire in the Blood, which looks at how and why western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to HIV/AIDS drugs in Africa.
“We’ve conservatively estimated that it’s a minimum of 10 million lives that were unnecessarily lost,” Gray said. “People that could have been saved with existing, available, affordable medication.”
“Primarily, [pharmaceutical companies] did so to maintain their profit margins,” Gray said about the high pricing of the drugs.
Gray explained that he believes in order to preserve other developing markets, prices of the HIV/AIDS drugs needed to stay high globally.
